European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories

    Workshop
    GMES: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

    Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 7 to 8 June 2007

    in the framework of the
    27th EARSeL Symposium Geoinformation in Europe
    Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 4-7 June 2007

    Contents

    • The Workshop
    • New: Workshop Programme
    • Scientific and Organising Committee
    • Registration
    • Guidelines for Preparing and Presenting a Poster
    • Venue and Accomodation
    • Publication
    • Important Dates

    The Workshop

      GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is a key initiative taken up by both ESA a nd the EU in order to improve the environment and security in Europe for citizens and all relevant stakeholders. From an EARSeL point of view, remote sensing technology fed by relevant research activities has proven to be a unique tool to support this initiative. It will provide it with relevant, accurate and timely data to be processed with in situ data through ad hoc models in order to deliver the requested information. GMES has been developed in the 6th FP of the EU as well as by ESA, and it is emerging as a major EU initiative in the use of space data in support of environmental monitoring strategies. GMES and GEOSS have a relevant role also in the incoming 7th European Framework Programme (2007-2013) in the sub-programmes Space (GMES) and Environment and Climate (GEOSS) and in the ESA (GSE) initiatives planned up to 2008.

      2008 has been initially planned to be the starting year of the operational GMES services. This switch to an operational phase will certainly take time, but the GMES planning has to be taken into full consideration. This implies technology transfer from research to a research-fed industry.
        GMES should have a major and structuring impact in the European Remote Sensing Research. Missing or neglecting it would be missing a unique policy supported opportunity. So, the workshop addresses a main issue that will structure our professional life and medium-term plans:
      "What role for remote sensing European research in preparing and implementing GMES?”

      So, the EARSeL 2007 symposium is the right event at the right time to raise that question and discuss about it to have such a 'think tank' in a strategic way. The restored relationship between EARSeL and ESA-ESRIN, and the direct relationship with EC-JRC, Ispra and EC Bruxelles are a quite encouraging framework.

      Topics:

        The topics follow the GMES key themes:
        1. Introduction - Political framework (EC & ESA)
        2. Land
        3. Ocean
        4. Atmosphere

      and their investigation with Remote Sensing:
      • Scientific aspects related to using remote sensing techniques within GMES and GSE
      • Are GMES taken into proper account in the remote sensing research? Are there scientific or technical gaps?
      • Are there already some successs stories in technology transfer related to GMES?

      The working language at the Workshop is English.

    Scientific Committee

      Gerard Begni, CNES, France
      Annamaria Nassisi, Italy
      Marc Leroy, France
      Steffen Kuntz, Germany
      Vinciane Lacroix, Belgium

    Organising Committee

      Gesine Böttcher, EARSeL Secretariat, Hannover, Germany
      Mario Angelo Gomarasca, IREA-CNR, Milano, Italy
      Gerard Begni, CNES, France

    Registration

      A registration for workshop attendance can be done anytime and also on-site. Presenting authors of workshop contributions, oral and poster, are kindly requested to transfer the registration fee before 1 May 2007 to ensure that their contribution will be included in the final programme.

      Payment of the registration fee is done with the Registration fee transfer form which can be downloaded here. It includes the Abstract Book, lunches, the icebreaker, and publications in the Workshop Proceedings and in EARSeL eProceedings (reviewed papers) with a free issue on CD ROM.

        Payment before 1 May 2007 after 1 May 2007
        EARSeL Members 180 Euro +20%
        Non-Members 250 Euro +20%
        Students (EARSeL Members) 100 Euro +20%
        Students (Non-Members) 150 Euro +20%

    Venue and Accommodation

      The workshop will be held at the Institute for Applied Remote Sensing of the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC Convention Center), Viale Druso 1, I-39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. A map of Convention Center, located near the Centro Storico of Bolzano, can be found here.

      Bolzano in southern Tyrol is a famous historic centre, surrounded by the Alps and close to the Dolomites. A map of Bolzano/Bozen and its surroundings can be found here.

      There is a wide range of hotels available in different price categories, see here. Rooms with reduced costs for workshop participants and cheap accommodation for students are available.

    Publication

      Contributions presented at the workshop will be published in the Workshop Proceedings on CD-ROM. The manuscripts will also be available on the Internet within EARSeL's Workshop Proceedings Series.

      Authors are particularly encouraged to submit their manuscripts to EARSeL's reviewed open-access journal EARSeL eProceedings.

    Important Dates

      Abstract due date: 31 March 2007
      Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2007
      Preliminary Programme on-line: 20 April 2007
      Workshop Programme with abstracts on-line: 7 May 2007
      Manuscript submission for Workshop Proceedings: 7 to 9 June 2007 (at workshop)
      Manuscript submission for reviewed publication in EARSeL eProceedings at any time.

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